Has this new Dmoz link put my rankings at risk?

[JenniferDacosta]

About 7 months ago, I applied for a link at Dmoz.

This week, the link got approved. The only problem is that it seems there are hundreds of link directories that scrape Dmoz.

Open Site Explorer is now showing about 130 new links to my site that are essentially Dmoz scrapper sites.

Do you think Google will mistaken this as me buying directory links?

[mememax]

whooops

[TakeshiYoung]

Google knows about DMOZ, so they won't consider links from the other directories to be paid links, but there is some risk of Penguin depending on your link profile and what kind of anchor text you used. I would monitor the links that are coming in from the other directories carefully, and use the disavow tool if you come across anything unsavory.

[TakeshiYoung]

When it used to exist

[mememax]

First of all congrats on taking a linkfrom dmoz, even with its contras it still remains a good source where to have your link placed.

Second don't worry about it. Google knows how many sites are taking DMOZ data even Google directory is based on it

[JamesNorquay]

DMOZ links and directory links in general will not hurt the website if they are decent quality.

Last October I interviewed a Google Search Quality employee who confirmed this and also confirmed high quality directory's are still fine to use: http://jamesnorquay.com/an-interview-ex-member-matt-cuttss-search-quality-team/

But that been said out of the 130 lower quality sites I would check them over to first see if they are indexed and then to also see if they have PR on page and also the general style of the directory. If you are concerned I would look at manually removing them if possible via out reach or if worst case scenario and they are very low quality I would use the Disavow tool.